Upgraded ilvls via Valor during any stage will be retained even after crafting to a higher stage.

Comment by jak3676

Note that this OH does not count toward your 3 WoD crafted item limit which is nice (the main hand does, but not the off-hand).

On the downside, having to use 2 Mystical Crystals to upgrade both your MH and OH stinks - probably not worth it in the long term unless you just can't get an OH raid drop for some reason and you have the mats to spare.

Comment by Magsy

I tried to Upgrade my 1 of 3 Shadowtome with a Mystical Crystal this morning and all I get is "This item is not valid" :(

Comment by GustoGA

WARNING - Not upgradeable atm 6.0.3 (fix in 6.1?)

Had a priest in our guild try to upgrade with the Unstable Weapon Crystal. Got a "not usable" text. Put through a ticket and GM said that its a current "oops" in the system, they (GM's) can not fix the problem. Said it is a programming issue and left it hanging there so hoping its a later patch fix.

Save your 15 Savage Blood & 100 War Paints. GM did not offer a refund for Mats, priest was probably too nice to push it but this one falls under BUYER BEWARE.

NOTE: Forums on tome said "I was able to submit a ticket by choosing the "Restoration" option in the help menu. (As in, please restore my materials I used to craft this broken item)."

However if a couple of guildies banded together, like us, to make this item bet it gets more murky.. once again BUYER BEWARE.

Comment by straz

6.1 still seems to have a problem for Shadowtomes.

Weapon crystals are for weapons, but Shadowtome is technically an off-hand. Weapon crystals were not intended for off-hands.

If you look at the Tarot cards that can upgrade trinkets or off hands I do not think you will find one that upgrades ilvl 630->640.

Comment by SaberTJ

This is upgradeable, you just need the Tarots for the trinkets. it serves the same function for off-hands

Comment by cards98765

Just wanted to clarify how you upgrade the the Shadowtome.

Using the Ensorcelled Tarot you will go from 630 to 645. The Greater Ensorcelled Tarot will take you from 645 to 660.The Powerful Ensorcelled Tarot will take you from 660 to 670.

The ensorcelled tarot when crafted will read from 640 to 655. The Greater Ensorcelled Tarot when crafted will read from 655 to 670 The Powerful Ensorcelled Tarot when crafted will read from 670 to 680These are WRONG and will take you 10 levels lower as described above.

The off-hand will be crafted with +48-72 each of two random secondary stats (chosen out of Critical Strike, Haste, Mastery, Versatility or Multistrike)

The quantity of secondary stats when crafted is random as well (e.g. one item may have +63 crit and +63 haste, while another of the same type may have +66 crit and +58 haste)

The off-hand changes in appearance to be more elaborate as it is upgraded, with the addition of scrollwork accents and a gem.

The off-hand DOES NOT counts towards 1 of the 3 maximum Warlords of Draenor crafted items that you can have equipped at one time

A chart of the possible random secondary enchants for this item follows below, with the two stat combinations for each enchant (the off-hand would be named "Shadowtome of the Random Enchantment", where the Random Enchantment is one of the below names):

STAT

Critical Strike

Haste

Mastery

Versatility

Multistrike

Critical Strike

X

Fireflash

Peerless

Quickblade

Savage

Haste

Fireflash

X

Feverflare

Aurora

Deft

Mastery

Peerless

Feverflare

X

Harmonious

Merciless

Versatility

Quickblade

Aurora

Harmonious

X

Strategist

Multistrike

Savage

Deft

Merciless

Strategist

X

Each of the 640 Darkmoon Faire trinkets/630 off-hands can be upgraded with items created by inscription.

**Note that 3 separate Ensorcelled Tarot items are required to get from Stage 1 to Stage 4.**

Notes about the upgrade items:

The upgrade items themselves are BoE and can be traded or sold on the Auction House

They can be used by anyone (not just scribes)

Using an upgrade item on gear will NOT bind it to you if it is not already bound to you

The upgrade item will NOT change the combination or proportion of stats on the item (e.g. if non-upgraded version has versatility and haste, the upgraded item will also have versatility and haste, just more of each stat)

These items can be used on gear that is already equipped

These upgrade items are exclusively crafted by Scribes - you cannot craft them as a non-Scribe, even with the Scribe's Quarters building in your garrison

Technique: Mighty Ensorcelled Tarot, sold by the Herb Trader visitor in your garrison - Samantha Scarlet (A) or Nicholas Mitrik (H). Note that you have a 1/5 chance of having a tradeskill vendor in your garrison every day, and there is a set rotation of tradeskill visitors from day to day (between herb, fur, leather, ore and dust). The easiest way to find this vendor is to use the Group Finder under Custom Premade Groups on the day that the Herb Trader is active.

Technique: Savage Ensorcelled Tarot, sold by the Herb Trader visitor in your garrison - Samantha Scarlet (A) or Nicholas Mitrik (H). Note that you have a 1/5 chance of having a tradeskill vendor in your garrison every day, and there is a set rotation of tradeskill visitors from day to day (between herb, fur, leather, ore and dust). The easiest way to find this vendor is to use the Group Finder under Custom Premade Groups on the day that the Herb Trader is active.

Darkmoon Card of Draenor creates a RANDOM darkmoon card, and as such it may not be the number or even the deck/trinket that you may be looking for. There are 32 different cards that can potentially be produced - any of those listed in the chart above.

Right-clicking any card (when all 8 cards of the corresponding deck are in your bags) will create the appropriate deck. Right-clicking the deck will create the corresponding trinket. This can be done by non-Scribes, and the Darkmoon Faire is NOT required to do so.

The trinkets themselves are BoE, and can be traded or sold on the Auction House if they have not been equipped.

The trinkets DO NOT require Inscription to use.

The trinkets can be equipped at Level 91.

The trinkets count towards 1 of the 3 maximum Warlords of Draenor crafted items that you can have equipped at one time.

Upgrading the trinket will change the primary stat amount and the proc strength, although the duration of the proc, proc chance and internal cooldown of the trinket remain the same.

Two of the same trinket CAN be equipped (this includes two different stages of the same trinket). This is not very useful, however, as the trinkets share the same internal cooldown for procs (so proc frequency WILL NOT increase). If two different stages of the same trinket are equipped, only the stronger trinket will proc. The only benefit of a second equipped trinket of the same type would be the primary stats obtained.

Comment by Araxom

Hi all, I'd like to chime in and reiterate that the information in the post (by jjanchan) is correct. Now, if you’re experiencing any issues upgrading the crafted item then the item itself may be bugged and our support staff may be able to help. If you encounter any difficulties, please reach out to us via the in-game support portal. Tyty!

Comment by kain78

After talking to a GM and wasting mats I just wanted to re point out that your to use the tarots to upgrade is, yup ignore the ilvl and use the thing that says 640 and not the weapon crystals that are for weapons and 630 items

Comment by tooltip

Patch 6.2 and the upgraded Shadowtome still displays as a rare-quality item rather than epic.

Comment by vannabanana

at 705, the Shadowtome still says it's upgradeable 0/2. Does anyone know how to upgrade those final two steps? Or is that a typo?

Comment by silthania

When crafting this for transmogrification, it only needs to be upgraded twice, to stage 3. The first, second, and third stages yield new appearances. The fourth through sixth stages use the same appearance as the third.

Comment by Vrynn

For some reason, in 8.0.1, you can't upgrade this item to higher ilvl, which means you probably can't unlock other 2 tramsmogs as well. I've been trying to upgrade my stage 2 shadowtome, which I've made in the middle of Legion, with Mighty Ensorcelled Tarot, and got "That item cannot be modified". So I've crafted new shadowtome, and tried to upgrade it to stage 2 with Ensorcelled Tarot, and that's where magic happens. Because shadowtome consumed Ensorcelled Tarot, but ilvl was still 136. And there also was "That item cannot be modified".

Comment by Tammara215

I actually contacted a GM to inquire if I could be given the two later versions of the Shadowtome while they take the materials I have in my bags. I was denied, being told to make a bug report, I asked if they could give me an estimate of the time it would take to fix this issue which seems to have been around since Legion from some reports, saying that only the weapon crystal used to work for the upgrade. (Yes the GM stated he'd tried this too, it didn't work.) In short, the GM told me not to hold my breath but the devs were aware of the issue.

Tl;dr Devs are aware you can't upgrade the Shadowtome anymore. Unknown timeline for a fix. They won't give you the items in exchange for the mats if you ticket. Make a bug report.

Comment by Tomcatbear

This item no longer works to upgrade the Shadowtome, I have filed bug reports and a ticket twice. I am trying to get the transmog appearence but do not bother to craft the ensorcelled tarot until blizzard fixes this problem; I have heard this has been a bug since legion so it has not been fixed for two years, consider anything past the base transmog appearence unobtainable.

I am filing another ticket right now and expect them to send me the link to this wowhead page again, like they did for my last ticket. Hope the GM reading my ticket reads this before i submit my ticket. this is what i wrote:

Game World of Warcraft

Topic Not listed here

Description The Warlords of Draenor inscription offhand item Shadowtome (ilvl 136) can not be upgraded with the Ensorcelled Tarot which is the item that is supposed to upgrade it up to the maximum ilvl of 139. There is an error message about it not being valid. I have 2 ensorcelled Tarot on me which I have tried to upgrade both a soulbound Shadowtome and a BOE version in my bags (and while the soulbound was equipped), I have filed a bug report also. This is my second ticket about this subject, I really only want the transmog. Can you remove the ensorcelled tarot from my bag and take the multiple shadowtomes i crafted from my inventory and unlock the appearences for the followup transmog of this Item. I am close to 92% of all appearences in the game, i need these transmogs.

Estimated response time: 24 hours

Ticket ID US66311464

I will add a followup to this when i get a response.

edit: i notice when trying to use this item my castbar says "upgrade armor" i think that because it is supposed to upgrade offhands and trinkets the code for the item itself is broken.

Followup from GM:

Dear Thomas,

Issue ID: #66311464

Your ticket has received the following response:

Hello there Thomas,

This is Specialist Game Master Relzzuli, here to help! I hope you are having a fine afternoon so far. I understand that you had an issue with upgrading the Shadowtome.

Thanks for letting us know you were having trouble with this!

It looks like there's an issue going on currently where that isn't able to be upgraded.

I'd appreciate if you let the developers know directly that this is going on so they can investigate the situation!

You can reach them anytime either in game or on the bug reporting forums with information as they look into different solutions.

Best of luck to you in the meantime!

If you have any questions or anything we can help with in the future, please let us know.

I hope you have a great time in game, and may all your battles be victorious!

Click here to review and resolve your ticket. If you continue to experience issues, you can respond to your ticket with additional information.

If you do not resolve the ticket or provide an additional response within one week, we will resolve the ticket automatically and you'll receive a final update via email.

Regards,Blizzard Support

So i Tweeted a screenshot of this to @warcraftdevs and hope to hear back from them